

His death, when Samus absorbs the Light of Aether, triggers the end of Dark Aether and Samus must flee to the portal.The expression "eight undocumented eras" ("kesshi hachidai" in Japanese) refers to the eight emperors from Emperor Suizei (second emperor) to Emperor Kaika (ninth emperor) whose pedigree records (called " Teiki" in Japanese) exist but whose achievements are not recorded in " Kojiki" and "Nihon Shoki" and the period represented by these emperors. After about twelve hits, the Emperor will gasp for air and then die. This fight can be pretty durable, and Samus must conserve ammunition. The beast will fire beams and the opposite beam will damage him - such as when it fires a dark beam, the Light Beam will damage the Emperor. These can seriously damage Samus with the dark lasers freezing her, so she has to move very fast to match his speed. It leaps about the room and spits out dark or light lasers. When the Emperor Ing is reborn, it is now a gigantic Warrior Ing. When the tentacle holes are damaged, the Emperor Ing will be reborn. However, she can use a Power Bomb to damage multiple holes at once. There are about twenty holes and this is the most challenging part of the fight because of the rapidly rising gas and the damage Samus can sustain from Ing attacks and the gas.

As the room quickly fills up with poisonous gas, Samus must turn into her Morph Ball and bomb the tentacle holes. In this second phase, the Emperor is inside a black cocoon bursting with Ing Tentacles and swarming with Inglets. After enough hits, usually about four charged shots, the Ing Emperor will morph into a cocoon. It is a gigantic Inglet, and his rotating Eye is protected by two lids, and Samus has to take advantage of the moments when the Eye is exposed. In the first phase of the boss battle, the Emperor will try and protect his Eye. She followed the beast to his throne room and a battle began. Samus had found the Keys and successfully entered the impenetrable Sky Temple, and she feared the worst when massive tentacles came up and swallowed the Light of Aether.

The Emperor Ing first appears in a similar way to Metroid Prime - he hangs from the ceiling in his palace and it jumps down in a gigantic dark pool to swallow the Light of Aether. She finds more about the Sky Temple and how it could be breached.

When searching Sanctuary Fortress, Samus first learns of the Emperor Ing's existence through Luminoth Lore. The Emperor became similar to Metroid Prime because Metroid Prime originally was just a Metroid brainwashed by Phazon, and Emperor Ing was an ordinary Inglet that was brainwashed into protecting the Leviathan.ĭuring the Luminoth-Ing war, many attempts were made to breach the infamous Sky Temple by finding the Keys, but all Luminoth died in their attempt and the mission was deemed futile. All Phazon on Aether was swept into Dark Aether and the meteor itself entered Dark Aether. The Emperor Ing was the first of the dark Ing race to be created on Dark Aether when the meteor ripped open the dimensions.
